Daughter of the Stone

Dwinn Somuron is part of the third generation of people whose starship crash-landed on a planet's massive storm-battered plateau. More than half of the first generation explored the trees beyond the sheer escarpment-and vanished. Those remaining struggled for survival in the depths of a rock-shrouded realm they called the Always Dark. Dwinn lives in the Always Dark.

Within these stone walls the once star-faring culture has been reduced to feudal conditions and women are shunted aside as only...